Emotional Truth

by Ronald de Sousa

The word "truth" retains, in common use, traces of origins that link it to trust, truth, and truce, connoting ideas of fidelity, loyalty, and authenticity. The word has become, in contemporary philosophy, encased in a web of technicalities, but we know that a true image is a faithful portrait; a true friend a loyal one. In a novel or a poem, too, we have a feel for what is emotionally true, though we are not concerned with the actuality of events...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195181549
• ISBN13: 9780195181548
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"